Who is Janice Rogers Brown?

Well, we know by now that Sandra Day O'Connor said enough is enough and retired from the Supreme Court.
And we should know that Clarence was appointed to replace Justice Marshall (in skin color only).
It's now being suggested that a woman will be selected to replace Justice O'Connor.
The problem however, is that, not just any ole woman is being considered. Some are actually referring to her as another Clarence Thomas.
Dayum!!!!

Bush Plans To Re-Nominate Failed Conservative Judges



California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown is one of many conservative judges President Bush plans to re-nominate to federal status during his second term.
http://www.sacobserver.com/government/010205/bush_renominate_judges.shtml

Civil Rights Groups Blast Bush Court Nominee
by Jim Lobe

WASHINGTON -- Civil rights groups, which have been pressing Senate Democrats to filibuster a series of important judicial nominations by President Bush, are now mobilizing opposition to the latest nominee, California Supreme Court justice Janice Rogers Brown.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1027-01.htm







The above are excerpts from Margaret Kimberly's article in the Black Commentator

http://www.blackcommentator.com/145/145_freedom_rider_another_clarence.html

I did a bit more searching and didn't like what I found.

Alliance for Justice Strongly Opposes Nomination of Janice Rogers Brown to DC Circuit
Statement by Alliance for Justice President Nan Aron

Aron described Brown's record as evincing a strong hostility to claims of discrimination based on race, age, gender, and disability, affirmative action, reproductive rights, and worker and consumer protections. "Justice Brown's record as a state court judge raises serious questions about her commitment to equal justice and her fitness for an appointment to the federal judiciary," Aron said.

Justice Brown is a divisive nominee whose record does not merit a seat on the second most powerful court in the country. The Senate should reject her nomination.

http://www.independentjudiciary.com/news/release.cfm?ReleaseID=100

http://www.independentjudiciary.com/nominees/nominee.cfm?NomineeID=50

It often helps to consider the organizations and persons who oppose....sooooooooo

Organizations Opposed to Brown



http://saveourcourts.civilrights.org/nominees/nominees/brown_opposed.html
A whoooooooole bunch of people oppose this woman.........I wonder why.

LCCR: Rogers Brown's Confirmation Both Alarming & Embarrassing
Race & Gender Card Played to Ram Through Activist Ideologue Freedoms

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 8, 2005
Mistique Cano (202) 263-2882

Washington - The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), the nation's oldest, largest and most diverse civil and human rights coalition, is alarmed and disappointed by the elevation of California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown to a lifetime appointment on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

"Republicans used one of the oldest tricks in the book to ram through Janice Rogers Brown's confirmation," said Wade Henderson, LCCR's Executive Director. "They exploited her race and gender to obscure her shameful record. Rogers Brown's judicial activism is extraordinary."

http://saveourcourts.civilrights.org/nominees/details.cfm?id=32100

More Opposition to Brown
http://saveourcourts.civilrights.org/nominees/nominees/brown.html

They tore her a new one in this article..........and rightfully so it seems.






The Republicans had to do something to make Janice Rogers Brown appear a sympathetic figure. The California state judge “has such an atrocious civil rights record she makes Clarence Thomas look like Thurgood Marshall," said Rep. Diane Watson (D-CA) at a Congressional Black Caucus press conference, last week. "She's cut from the same cloth as Clarence Thomas," declared Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia’s non-voting representative in the House, and one of the caucus’s leading legal lights. George Bush “hasn’t fooled us” with his nomination of Brown to become the second Black woman on the DC Court of Appeals.


Indeed, Janice Brown is “to the Right of Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia,” according to a study by People for the American Way. “Her many disturbing dissents, often not joined by a single other justice, make it clear that she would use the power of an appeals court seat to try to erect significant barriers for victims of discrimination to seek justice in the courts, and to push an agenda that would undermine privacy, equal protection under the law, environmental protection, and much more.”

http://www.blackcommentator.com/61/61_cover_rogers.html

In all fairness........

Janice Rogers Brown: In Her Own Words

http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=12751

We need to talk about this.
The onslaught continues.


This is alarming!